Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Summary – Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: McLean, VA (Onsite)

Type: Long Term Contract

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### Summary of Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to cloud deployment operations and production releases in enterprise environments.
• Design and implement service-oriented and microservices cloud architectures for large-scale applications.
• Develop, secure, and integrate REST APIs (using Java or Python) in distributed cloud systems.
• Integrate and manage cloud services and third-party applications within complex enterprise ecosystems.
• Drive the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) for cloud platforms and security applications.
• Architect and implement cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions, including OAuth, SSO, SAML federation, and MFA.
• Automate deployment, provisioning, and management of cloud infrastructure using tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Cloud Formation.
• Manage cloud infrastructure components such as AWS EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, IAM, RDS, and networks (VPC, load balancers, API gateways).
• Ensure data management best practices for identity and access data within cloud contexts.
• Integrate security into authentication, authorization, and SSO processes using tools like Duo and Microsoft Authenticator.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud solutions.

### Required Experience:

• 15+ years in software development, with 9+ years in cloud domain expertise (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• 5+ years with SDLC for cloud/hybrid apps, including automation of requirements, design, implementation, integration, and testing.
• 5+ years with cloud infrastructure technologies: Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, Linux, networking, and security/data flows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud IAM solutions, OAuth, SSO, SAML, and MFA integrations.

### Technical Skills:

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, IAM, RDS, KMS, etc.)
• Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Helm
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
• DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
• Development: Java (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate), Python, Groovy, Perl, Ruby
• Database: Postgres
• API: REST/RPC over HTTP
• Security: PKI, SSL/TLS, Fuzzing (preferred)
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, etc.)

### Soft Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Self-motivated, creative, and driven individual

### Preferred/Differentiators:

• Experience with WebAuthn, Robot/Sauce Labs
• CI/CD scaling and microservices deployment
• Code coverage/static analysis tools
• Frontend experience (JavaScript/TypeScript/Angular/HTML5/Bootstrap)
• .NET languages (C#, VB .NET)
• Experience managing/overseeing production web app deployments

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Interview Process:

• Video and face-to-face interviews
• Glider assessment or similar required